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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 08:05 AM Jun 2017

Gillespie vows to move Virginia backwards

"For instance, Gillespie claims that Ralph Northam is “one angry liberal” who “disdains us…looks down upon us…[pits] Virginian against Virginian, constantly trying to divide us”. WTF? Psychological projection again? Not crazy enough? Gillespie also wildly argues that Ralph Northam has “embraced a radical environmental policy” (FALSE, unless you think that encouraging cheap/inexhaustible/clean energy, which overwhelming percentages of Virginians and Americans do, is somehow “radical”), wants to raise your taxes (FALSE, unless perhaps you’re super rich), “abandoned” Virginia’s so-called/Orwellian “right-to-work laws” (I must have missed that…wish he HAD abandoned that one, though); etc. "

"Last but…actually, least, Gillespie’s overall vision is for Virginia to “look more like states to our south” (what, like Mississippi? Alabama? Louisiana? sounds great, huh?)."

http://bluevirginia.us/2017/06/video-using-shrillhysterical-rhetoric-ed-gillespie-vows-move-virginia-backwards-make-definitively-southern-state

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Gillespie vows to move Virginia backwards (Original Post) Va Lefty Jun 2017 OP
The Virginia governor's race will be fun to watch Gothmog Jun 2017 #1
Speaking as "One Angry Liberal" rogue emissary Jun 2017 #2
Good point. Duppers Jun 2017 #3

rogue emissary

(3,148 posts)
2. Speaking as "One Angry Liberal"
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 01:06 PM
Jun 2017

Northam, is no way close to fitting that stereotype. One of the things that bugs me is his down home southern speaking style. So it's going to be hilarious to see Gillespie try to paint Northam as some coastal elitist.

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